Dori J. Maynard, who promoted diversity in newsrooms as the president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, died of lung cancer in her California home on Feb. 24. She was 56. Read More

Brown v. Board was a collection of five cases; all of them focused on the constitutionality of state-sponsored segregation in public schools. Davis v. Board of Education of Prince Edward County (VA) was one of the five cases and it started with students. Read More

Discouraged by the lack of press coverage of the civil rights movement by the mainstream press, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or “SNCC”, began their own independent newspaper, The Student Voice. Read More

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